May 24, 2013 – Segment 3Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Leonard Pitts, Jr. discusses his compelling new novel, Freeman. The novel begins the day slavery ended in the U.S. and is about the existential and real struggle over what it means to be free.
May 24, 2013 – Segment 2We look at at the events unfolding in Guatemala following last week’s guilty verdict for former dictator General Efraín Ríos Montt, its overturning, and possible implications for the U.S. Our guests are Jeffrey Davis, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at UMBC; and Anita Isaacs, Benjamin Collins Professor of Social Sciences and Associate Professor of Political Science at Haverford College.
May 24, 2013 – Segment 1We host a political roundtable to examine the week’s events, including President Obama’s speech yesterday outlining his administration’s policies on drone warfare and Guantanamo Bay. Our panelists are: E.R. Shipp, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and Journalist-in-Residence at Morgan State University; Imara Jones, Economic Justice contributor for Colorlines.com; Tyrone Keys, author, public affairs strategist, and public relations expert whose work can be found at RealityNeverSleeps.com; and Rooj Alwazir, Yemeni-American organizer and activist, co-founder of the Support Yemen Media Collective, and organizer with Code Pink.
May 23, 2013 – Segment 3We analyze President Obama’s messages to Black America, looking at his recent commencement speeches.
Kai Wright, editorial director of Colorlines.com and a reporting fellow of the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute; Dr. Kimberly Moffitt, Assistant Professor of American Studies at UMBC and author of Blackberries and Redbones: Critical Articulations of Black Hair/Body Politics in Africana Communities; and Keith Snipes, actor and writer, join us.
May 23, 2013 – Segment 2
May 23, 2013 – Segment 1We talk about the issues facing the state of Maryland with Howard County Executive Ken Ulman, who is expected to run for governor in 2014.
May 22, 2013 – Hour 2We turn to the Arts, with Center for Emerging Media Cultural Editor Lea Gilmore!
First, we talk about Arena Players, the longest running continuously operating African-American community theater in the U.S., with Artistic Director Donald Owens and Assistant Artistic Director David Mitchell.
Then we discuss The Caretaker, Harold Pinter’s classic play, currently at Performance Workshop Theatre, with director Marlyn Robinson.
Finally, since May 21 would have been The Notorious B.I.G.’s 41st birthday, we will discuss his legacy with Ali Danois, Senior Editor of Bounce Magazine.
May 22, 2013 – Hour 1This week on Sound Bites, we begin with Dr. Keeve Nachman, Director of the Center for a Livable Future‘s Farming for the Future program, who joins us to talk about a scientific study he co-authored on arsenic in chicken feed.
Then, New York Times Supreme Court correspondent Adam Liptak discusses last week’s Supreme Court decision in which the court ruled unanimously in favor of Monsanto, stating that an Indiana farmer violated Monsanto’s patent on genetically modified soybeans when he culled some from a grain elevator and used them to replant his own crop in future years.
Next you hear from Tim Wheeler, reporter for B’more Green, the Baltimore Sun‘s environmental blog, who will discuss oyster restoration projects in the Chesapeake Bay.
We close out the first hour with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Moss, investigative reporter for the New York Times, who joins us to talk about his new book, Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us.
May 21, 2013 – Segment 5We close out the show with the energetic voices of the Baltimore Citywide Youth Poetry Team - this year comprised completely of young talented women – who will be representing Baltimore at the 16th Annual Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam in August in Chicago.
May 21, 2013 – Segment 4We are joined by A. F. James MacArthur, blogger for the Baltimore Spectator, who was recently released after spending several months in jail following a standoff last December with the police.
The Center for Emerging Media is proud to announce that it is a winner of the 2007 George Foster Peabody Award for excellence in broadcast media! CEM is being honored for the 2007 series Just Words.